Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower in his sixties, his relationship with his sister, always close, became incestuous for three years, until he married again, to his step-niece. Died Brighton.
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Sir Francis Beaufort
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Sir Beaufort
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Bernard W. A. James
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
West Hampstead Fire Station
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1 memorial
R. J. Pawley
Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John Arthur Andrews
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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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William Pitt Byrne
W1, George Street
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1 subject commemorated,
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Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough
Probably inherited the title in 1690. Mother was Susanna Noel.
1 memorial
Enfield Grammar School
Boys secondary school. Alumni include: Lord Jenkins of Putney, jazz musician Terry Lightfoot and photographer Oliver Gregory Pike.
1 memorial
Teddington Locks
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2 memorials
Harold P. Bastie, Alderman
Chairman Highways Committee. Andrew Behan researched Bastie: Harold Percival Doughty Bastie was born on 24 February 1913 and his birth was registered in Edmonton, Middlesex. He was the second chil...
1 memorial
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